Recently I have been faced with a lot of information and worry about people I love and care for. Friends and family in my life here and there having major concerns and burdens they are carrying. It's hard when you are faced with wanting to step in and help them, change their situation and see them through and yet your hands are 'tied' and you can only pray, have concern, offer advice and that literally all you can do. This takes trust and surrender to have this type of 'hands off approach' to and realizing
it is not your load to carry. In Romans 5:15 it says "Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep", so we do know we are to have empathy and compassion in the truest sense of the expression, but where do we have our personal 'boundries' in the process?
A friend of mine said this to me recently, "you can help carry their burden but not her LOAD. A burden is a concern in physical or spiritual need. A load is a person's responsibility from their own life choices and consequences that they must own. If they don't own it they cannot change it."
Otherwise one will always be looking to someone else to live their life for them.
Galatians 6: 4 Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, for each one should carry their own load.
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